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38 Cards in this Set
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Allusion |
an indirect reference to a person, event, theme or statement found in literature, the arts, history, myths, religion, culture. Used to enrich the meaning because of the connotations they have. |
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Meiosis |
Understatement; describing something in a way that minimizes its significance but in doing so, the effect is often to draw attention to the matter even more |
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Hyperbole |
Overstatement; a figure of speech that uses purposeful exaggeration to achieve an effect |
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Image |
a visual presentation of something or a mental picture of something. An image often involves using descriptive terms or figurative language to produce an impression upon the reader, can involve senses other than sight, movement, and pressure (sound, smell, etc.) |
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Anaphora |
the exact repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences, a type of parallelism |
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Apostrophe |
addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present/alive and could reply to what is being said |
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Connotation |
the association brought up by a word; it goes beyond its literal meaning |
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Diction |
word choice, include vocabulary and syntax |
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Syntax |
a subset of diction, the arrangement (ordering, grouping, placement) of words within a phrase, clause, or sentence |
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Enjambment |
this is a poetic expression that runs more than one line |
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Extended Metaphor |
a metaphor that is developed at length |
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Paradox |
statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical but contains an underlying truth |
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Oxymoron |
a subset of paradox, uses two opposite words (jumbo shrimp) |
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Personification |
a figure of speech that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman |
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Metaphor |
a figure of speech that associates 2 different things |
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Simile |
a metaphor, but one that uses "like" or "as" |
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Symbol |
something that stands for something larger and more complex |
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Tone |
the speaker's attitude toward the subject |
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Metonymy |
one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it (the White House used as a phrase to represent the presidency/administration) |
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Synecdoche |
a part of something is used to present the whole |
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Alliteration |
the repetition of sounds in a sequence of words, repeated consonant sounds |
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Assonance |
the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds usually in stressed syllables, followed by different consonant sounds in proximate words *different from rhyme because rhyming words also repeat the final consonant sounds (fate/shave NOT shave/dave) |
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End-Stopped Lines |
opposite of enjambment, an end-stopped line is a phrase that stops at the end of the line |
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Onomatopoeia |
words that sound like what they mean (hiss, bam, sizzle) |
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Rhyme |
repetition of identical vowel sounds in stressed syllables of two or more words |
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Masculine Rhyme |
rhyme sounds involve 1 syllables (bat/cat or support/retort) |
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Feminine Rhyme |
rhyme sounds involve 2 or more syllables (turtle/fertile) |
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Approximate Rhyme |
slant rhyme; words with any kind of similarity |
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End Rhyme |
happens at the end of a line |
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Internal Rhyme |
happens in the middle of the line |
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Beginning Rhyme |
happens at the beginning of a line |
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Rhyme Scheme |
the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
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Refrain |
when whole phrases and lines are repeated with some fixed pattern |
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Rhythm |
basic beat or pattern in language |
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Meter |
regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables, the metrical unit of a line is called a foot |
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Scansion |
the analysis of meter, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Couplet |
2 successive lines of rhyming verse, often of the same meter |
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Consonance |
the repetition of final consonant sounds (first/last or odds/ends) |
